The Art of the Commonplace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendell Berry
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Autobiography, essays, nature, philosophy, and religion
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Essays, Religion and spirituality, Nature writing
- Subjects: Freedom, United States or Americans, Nature, Authors or writers, Rural or country life, Alienation, Poetry or poets, Farms, farmers, or farming, Agriculture, Environment or environmental health, Kentucky, Industrialization, Land settlement, Philology or philologists
As this retrospective volume of essays demonstrates, Wendell Berry is a unique and gifted contributor to American literature and culture. Recognized early on as a poet, Berry soon developed as an essayist focusing on an agrarian vision of a healthy society. His persuasive, sometimes caustic, arguments have given him an almost prophetic stature among readers seeking to reduce personal anxieties and to avoid cultural breakdown. According to its supporters, agrarianism will reduce such ills as alienation, waste, crime, and environmental degradation. Only the restoration of the vital...
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